Close combat dueling game Ironlights added two new classes — Dragoon and Scourge — and a sandbox mode to create your own fighters or try out any of the game’s weapons.
The sandbox mode lets you record animations to create a new bot fighter which can be exported to share with others. The bots in the new sandbox mode are made with the same in-game animation recording tool developer E McNeill used to make the bots in the single-player campaign.
“You define your bot’s behavior by recording animations for various ‘moves’, like Melee Attack, Chargeup, and Taunt,” McNeill explained in an email. “Then you can fight your bot (or the bots made by others, if you sideload them) and it’ll play the different animations based on the context of the fight. In short, they’re as fully-featured as any fighter in the game!”
The new classes are Dragoon and Scourge. Dragoon, pictured below, features a blade with three tips as well as a parrying dagger for defense. The class also throws javelins and daggers for ranged attacks.
The Scourge class, meanwhile, equips the player with two whips for fast attacks as well as defense. You can crack the whip on an opponent for extra damage, according to the release notes, and swing the whip to send a spinning disc at the enemy. You can see it in the gif below:
The update for Ironlights also includes a number of balancing updates for the existing classes as well as various bug fixes and changes.
Ironlights is available on the Oculus Store for Quest as well as available for PC VR on Steam.
Ironlights is certainly a step away from his previous videogames which all tend to be in the real-time strategy (RTS) genre, titles like Astraeus and 
This is also coupled with a health bar which can be used to boost your stamina bar quickly, getting back in the fight at the expense of reduced armour. The system works well enough when both players are healthy, as they can scrap it out fairly fluidly, the problem comes when those bars are minimal. With a drained blue bar and low health, you’re left awaiting a slow death as you can’t attack or boost. If you’re both in the same predicament then the end of a match can become a long draw out affair as you wait for even the smallest amount of stamina to attack. Which can get a little frustrating.
Naturally, this means the core mode in Ironlights is its multiplayer PvP, where you can select open random matches or create a private one for you and a mate to duel it out. Thankfully, E McNeill hasn’t gone down the pure multiplayer route even though the title will support PC VR headsets and Oculus Quest for plenty of cross-play action. There is a single-player section which is packed with matches, great for getting acquainted with the various classes as some are harder than others to master.
One genius feature is the ability to create a GIF of your favourite part of the fight (usually the end as the losing opponent explodes) which can be exported and shared if you so wish. This will be a boon for those players wishing to showcase their Ironlights fights as they have several recording options when it comes to camera angles and panning.